The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters
Beowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Medieval Literature
165 books — 134 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Italian Renaissance
283 books — 174 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellLes Misérables by Victor HugoJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Everyman Library Classics
174 books — 96 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 502 voters
Walden by Henry David ThoreauWilderness Essays by John MuirWild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson SetonMy First Summer in the Sierra by John MuirTravels in Alaska by John Muir
Gibbs Smith Literary Naturalists
14 books — 9 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
776 books — 3,251 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,173 books — 1,112 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,389 books — 1,528 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,573 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Penguin Clothbound Classics
109 books — 363 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLife And Fate by Vasily Grossman
Vintage Classic Russians Series
6 books — 7 voters


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